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2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit
*20th G20 Summit*
2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit; 20th G20 Summit
Host country	South Africa
Motto	Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability
Venue(s)	TBA
Cities	Johannesburg
Participants	G20 members; Invited States:; Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands,; New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates; International bodies:; AFDB, CAF, FSB, FAO, IDB, ILO, IMF, LAS, NDB, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, World Bank, WHO, WTO
Chair	Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Website	g20.org

The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of Heads of State and Government held from 22 to 23 November 2025.^[1] It will be the first G20 summit held in South Africa and on the African continent.

Presidency

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 deadline.

There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centred, development-oriented and solution-oriented presidency, in a fractured global geopolitical context, until it hands over the presidency to the United States on 1 December 2025.^[2]

South Africa’s participation in the G20 is guided by its four strategic foreign policy pillars (national interests, the African Agenda, South-South Cooperation and Multilateralism).^[3]

Summit topic

For the G20 to make a meaningful contribution in addressing the polycrisis confronting the world, South Africa has adopted the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.

This theme reflects South Africa’s intention to build on the efforts and successes of the last three G20 Presidencies of the Global South and to advance the development agenda.

Through solidarity, we seek to achieve a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive future. In an interconnected world, the challenges facing one nation affect all nations. By promoting equality, we seek to ensure fair treatment, opportunities and progress for all people and nations, regardless of their economic status, gender, race, geographic location or other characteristics. Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. ^[2]

Agenda priorities

South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.”^[2]

South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.

The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks

High-level priorities

South Africa’s G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level deliverables, and priorities, which will find expression in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks:^[2]

Priority 1 – Inclusive economic growth, industrialisation, employment and reducing inequality
Priority 2 – Food security
Priority 3 – Artificial intelligence and innovation for sustainable development